Using Autobiographical Approaches with People with Learning Difficulties

Disability and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 203-216

  Atkinson, Dorothy ^a   Walmsley, Jan ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0033446542     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687599926271     Document Type: Article

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